AUTHOR in a Sentence

Learn AUTHOR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for AUTHOR, such as:
1. Tom is quite familiar with the author.
2. The author of the article is nameless.
3. Choose an author as you choose a friend.
4. The author shows his skill in navigation.
5. An apartment at court provided for the author.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of AUTHOR
author
 n.  writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
 v.  be the author of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Heathcliff arrived underneath just at the critical moment; by a natural impulse he arrested his descent, and setting him on his feet, looked up to discover the author of the accident.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  The author gives some account of himself and family.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
3  The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
4  Learned men appointed to teach the author their language.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
5  The author diverts the emperor, and his nobility of both sexes, in a very uncommon manner.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III.
6  The author has his liberty granted him upon certain conditions.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III.
7  A conversation between the author and a principal secretary, concerning the affairs of that empire.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV.
8  The author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.
9  The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII.
10  The author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and, after some difficulties, returns safe to his native country.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
11  A great storm described; the long boat sent to fetch water; the author goes with it to discover the country.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
12  The author carried to a market-town, and then to the metropolis.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
13  An apartment at court provided for the author.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
14  Several adventurers that happened to the author.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V.
15  The author shows his skill in navigation.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Martin Parry, author of the report, says it's time for concerted action by world leaders.
2  The author belongs among the romance writers more than among the novelists.
3  Textual analysis identified the author as Shakespeare.
4  In his analysis of the novel he discusses various aspects of the author's own life.
5  The author of the article is nameless.
6  The author boxed the compass of negation in his article.
7  Choose an author as you choose a friend.
8  They assume they have a more or less equal relationship with the author.
9  He who purposes to be an author, should first be a student.
10  He is the author of two books on French history.
11  He was an eighteenth-century author who wrote parodies of other people's works.
12  Tom is quite familiar with the author.
13  The author is going to adapt his stories for television.
14  The author portrays life in a refugee camp very vividly.
15  After the play they called for the author to show himself.